Mercury is a syslog forwarder.

the main goals are :

• providing isolation between sources, and between destinations
• providing loading/unloading conf without restart
• providing FIFO support for software with file-only logging
• outputing only rfc5424 message
• if you use a log aggregator, all the filters and complex-dispatching will run on the aggregator not the source host
• if you have lots of vms, containers, jails, chroot, you may need a lightweight forwarder

1. Each configuration block is a specific file.
2. Each configuration block is a json serialization in a file.
3. There is two kinds of drivers : input driver and output driver
4. The only globally mandatories keys are : "id" and "driver"
5. The key "id" is the name of a configuration block
6. The key "driver" is the used driver for a configuration block
7. An instance is a configuration block with an id and a driver
8. An output instance is a configuration block with an id and a driver using an output driver
9. The key "output" is mandatory for input drivers
10. The key "output" is a list of "id" of output instance